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Show "REDS" AND SOLDIERS CLASH IN NEW YORK1 NEW YORK. A riot In which at least thrco persons woro beaten unconscious un-conscious raged Tuesday night In Fifth avenue, and along Fifty-seventh street to Carnegie hall, whoro I tho Mooney Defense Leaguo hold a meeting In behalf ot Tom Mooney, the California labor leader under I sentence of death for his aprtlclpa-tlon aprtlclpa-tlon In tho San Francisco preparedness prepared-ness parade bomb outrage. Tho complaint com-plaint of tho soldiers was that tho Mooney demonstrants wero "carrying "carry-ing the bolshevik! flag above tho Am qrlcnn flag," and that thoy spoke slightingly of the soldlory. The Mooney sympathizers wcro attacked by an Infuriated mob of soldiers, sailors and Inarlnes. J. Edward Ed-ward Morgan ot San Francisco who has mado sovcml tours of tho country coun-try In tho Interest of Mooney, was knocked senseless. It was fifteen minutes boforo ho regained consciousness. con-sciousness. Morgan has encountered trouble BBBBBBBBBBS on the sama scoro before At El San- H to, Cat., some months ago ho was H kidnapped by the vigilantes and tak- H en fifty miles Into tho desert, where H ho was later rescued by soldiers. He H was found to havo letters from Col. H E. M. Houso and Joseph Tumulty, H secretary to tho President. H 1 BBBH |